Cora Lingling Xu

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Dr Cora Lingling Xu is Associate Professor at Durham University. She a sociologist of education interested in education mobilities and social inequalities. Her research examines how the intersection of class, gender, ethnicity, rural-urban divides, time, and geopolitics can shape social agents’ educational and life trajectories. She is an executive editor of the British Journal of Sociology of Education. Cora’s research has been featured in multiple news outlets such as the BBC, Sixth Tone, People Magazine 《人物》and the South China Morning Post.

Experience

  • 2020–present
    Associate Professor in Sociology of Education, Durham University

Education

  • 2016 
    University of Cambridge, PhD in Sociology of Education

Publications

  • 2025
    The Time Inheritors: How Time Inequalities Shape Higher Education Mobility in China, State University of New York Press

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